Telegram users in the Americas and other countries experienced connection issues.

South Africans turned to Google for voting information, while photo-sharing apps like Instagram were used to showcase their marks in the sixth democratic election.

South African political parties have been hard at work using social media as a tool to reach voters, hoping these online efforts will translate into votes.

The social media giant outlines plans to create an independent oversight board to provide guidelines around implementing a level of censorship on the platform.

Companies should implement social media training programmes to stop reputational risks posed by staff online, says privacyconsulting's Russell Nel.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Stanford University argue Facebook should make changes to aid democracy and free speech.

Facebook, Google, Twitter and Liberty were among companies subjected to major data breaches in 2018.

Twitter shares fell almost 7% after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers.

Silicon Valley tech giants are so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless changes in taste reduce their clout, says Tim Berners-Lee.

The company easily beats Wall Street's revenue and profit estimates by selling more ads even though it lost users after purging millions of fake accounts.

A new tool finds Philadelphia, Washington DC and Johannesburg are the most negative cities in the world.

Half of all records compromised in the first half of 2018 were from social media data breaches, says Gemalto.